Supply Chain/Logistics

The final versions of two GDP documents were issued recently, one by the European Union, and one by the Ministry of Health for China (MoH). China’s is called a GSP—“Good Supply Practices for Pharmaceutical Products,” but the MoH officials note […]

HDMA’s annual Distribution Management Conference and Expo is the single-largest forum for wholesalers dealing with the changing landscape of pharmaceutical distribution. This year, the meeting will benefit from the involvement of both the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers (IFPW; Manassas, […]

For at least five years running, UPS Healthcare Logistics has been opening new warehousing/distribution centers around the world; now it’s coming back to North America to expand capacity on this continent. Five new or reallocated facilities are being added, totaling […]

In what it heralds as a new recent high, FDA approved 39 new molecular entities in 2012—a total not matched since the mid-1990s. This is encouraging news for an industry approaching the end of a “patent cliff” period where numerous […]

Cardinal is paying $2.07 billion for the privately held company, which it says had 2012 sales of about $1 billion, including the recently acquired Invacare Supply Group. AssuraMed operates through two separate businesses, Independence Medical and Edgepark Medical Supplies. […]

Continuing its years-long expansion of logistics resources globally, UPS Healthcare Logistics has announced the opening of three new facilities in the Asia-Pacific region, bringing the total number of dedicated healthcare logistics facilities to 36. These new facilities complement the existing […]

As a complement to the temperature-controlled shipping of life sciences products, through its Healthcare Logistics and Custom Critical business units, FedEx (Memphis) has been developing a small electronic box, the SenseAware unit, to both record shipping conditions (temperature, pressure, light […]

Owens & Minor, Inc. is a leading US-based distributor of healthcare products, a supply chain solutions provider, and now a leading provider of healthcare logistics services in Europe and the U.S. Founded in 1882, the company has 48 distribution centers […]